Frank,
On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 8:45 AM Frank Christel <fjchris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Drew,
>
> I am grateful for your instructions showing how to change the format
> Rivendell uses to internally save audio. But we’re fine with a default of
> PCM16, especially in 2020 when, as Fred points out, storage is cheap.
My mistake, I thought you wanted mp2 for storage on account of sorting your
library on a Pi... (Perhaps I was not paying close enough attention and
since that was what we did on our one Rivendell Pi test machine, I made an
unwarranted assumption somewhere.)
> Linear WAV has been the house standard at Public Radio Tulsa since the
> beginning of automated time.
>
> In my tests with importing various MP2 files, I did experience some
> anomalies. Most imported without problems, but after churning away, some
> displayed a “Internal error” dialog and wouldn’t load into a cart. These
> are MP2s which play fine outside of Rivendell.
>
If you know which ones they are, and there aren't too many of them, you
could try converting them to wav outside or Rivendell and then importing.
>
> Does Rivendell maintain an error log? I couldn’t locate it or generate one
> through the Reports module.
>
I am not good with Rivendell logging. Perhaps someone more capable can
answer.
>
> Frank
>
all the best,
drew
>
> _____________
>
> On 2/29/2020, at 10:06 AM, drew Roberts <zotz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Right, but if you didn't change the format for your library storage desire
> beforehand, what you did was import an MP2 cut, turning it into a pcm
> ("wave") cut during the import. You would have needed to change your
> library format so that when importing you end up with MP2 in a .wav
> container…
>
> _____________
>
> On 2/28/2020, at 11:02 AM, Fred Gleason <fr...@paravelsystems.com> wrote:
>
> Here in 2020, MPEG audio encoding for storage purposes is fast receding
> into the mists of history. Unless one has a very specific reason otherwise
> —e.g. a huge existing library of already-encoded material — the usage of
> PCM16 or PCM24 is *strongly* encouraged over MPEG. Storage is dirt cheap
> these days, while MPEG incurs irreversible quality loss; there is really no
> reason anymore to employ it for the sake of reducing storage requirements.
>
> _____________
>
> On 2/27/2020, at 5:09 PM, drew Roberts <zotz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> click manage hosts.
> highlight the host in question and click edit.
> click rdlibrary.
> about halfway down change Format: from PCM16 to MPEG Layer 2.
> save everything until you are out of rdadmin
> start rdlibrary and import a new song into a new cart.
> try to play the cart.
> if it plays...
> from a terminal:
> file /var/snd/999999_001.wav
>
>
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